Patents by Inventor Takahiro Otomo

Takahiro Otomo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240131430
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions causing a control device to execute: causing a controller to execute, in a training scenario, a training game and a challenge game in which a character attempts to achieve a target, in a specific order; awarding a skill point to the character based on an execution state of the training game or the challenge game; causing a display to display a skill acquisition screen in which the character acquires one or more skills from among acquirable skills of the character by consuming the skill point; when the character has acquired a skill that matches a condition included in the challenge game, activating the skill to be exhibited in the challenge game; and causing the display to display, on the skill acquisition screen, information on a condition included in a subsequently-executed challenge game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11957977
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20240050855
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a control device that: acquires position information about a player in a real world; determines whether a specific condition has been satisfied based on the position information; selects one or more events from types of the events in response to determining that the specific condition has been satisfied; accumulates the selected events in accumulation information associated with the player; and executes the accumulated events at a player's request. In response to execution of the accumulated events, the control device gives the player a reward related to the executed events, each of the accumulated events is associated with a time period of possible accumulation, and the control device deletes any event for which the time period of possible accumulation has elapsed, from the accumulation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20240009562
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that cause a computer to function as: a storage device that stores a usage status of each of player's possessed contents in a game; and a control device that: extracts, from the possessed contents, a content group having the usage status that does not satisfy a specific condition, receives, from a player via a terminal device including a display, a first request to browse the possessed contents, and in response to the first request, causes the display of the terminal device to display a screen including the possessed contents except the content group, the first request being a request for selecting, from the possessed contents, a content to be used in the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20240009557
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that cause a computer to function as: a storage device that stores a usage status of each of player's possessed contents in a game; and a control device that: extracts, from the possessed contents, a content group having the usage status that satisfies a specific condition, receives, from a player via a terminal device including a display, a first request to browse the possessed contents, and in response to the first request, causes the display of the terminal device to display a screen including the possessed contents except the content group, the first request being a request for selecting, from the possessed contents, a content to be discarded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11833432
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition means for acquiring position information about a player in a real world; a determination means for determining whether or not a specific condition related to a movement or a position of the player has been satisfied based on the position information; a selection means for selecting one or more contents from types of the contents based on appearance frequency, regardless of a request from the player, in response to determining that the specific condition has been satisfied; an accumulation means for accumulating the selected contents in accumulation information associated with the player; and an execution means for executing an event corresponding to the accumulated contents at the request of the player. The execution means gives the player a reward related to the accumulated contents in response to the execution of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230311004
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that cause a computer to function as: extracts, from among player's possessed contents, a content group to which an evolved content as a new evolution destination has been added via a game update, causes a display device to display a notification screen that notifies the extracted content group, receives, via an input device, a batch instruction to collectively evolve each of contents included in the content group after the notification screen has been displayed, and upon receiving the batch instruction, collectively evolves and fuses the contents into the evolved content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230285861
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for executing a game in which a certain quest becomes executable based on an update that adds the certain quest to an existing quest, and a new character becomes usable based on an update that adds the new character to an existing character, the instructions causing a computer to: select a used character to be used in one quest that is the certain quest, execute the one quest based on a parameter of the used character, and grant a reward to a player in response to satisfying a clearance condition in the executed one quest, the used character including an existing character that became usable before a time when the one quest becomes executable, and the one quest becoming executable after a specific condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11738267
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller and a storage that stores: contents and a mission associated with a first content of the contents. The controller executes a game in which a parameter of a source content is increased when the source content having a source content ID is fused with a resource content having a resource content ID that is the same as the source content ID; upon receiving an instruction for the mission based on a player's operation, causes a screen to display a game discipline in which the first content can be acquired; when two or more first contents are acquired, determines: a second content of the acquired first contents as the source content; and third contents of the acquired first contents as the resource contents; and cause the screen to display a result in which the second content is automatically fused with the third contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230249072
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that present, to a user, predetermined information necessary for utilizing updated contents provided by an information processing device, the instructions causing a computer to execute: extracting, from among possessed contents, an existing content to which an evolved content will be added through a game update, wherein the evolved content is an evolution destination of the existing content; acquiring, as the predetermined information, a cost required to evolve the existing content into the evolved content; and upon determining a lack of the cost in the possessed contents, displaying a notification screen that indicates the lack of the cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230226446
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a control means for causing the player to acquire a content in response to a game execution instruction from the player; an extraction means for extracting content groups of the same type from contents possessed by the player, according to an instruction from the player; a selection means for automatically selecting fusion source contents and resource contents from each of the extracted content groups; and a fusion means for collectively fusing, for each of the fusion source contents, one of the resource contents of the same type as the each of the fusion source contents. The selection means selects, as the resource contents, contents having a rarity at or below a specific level, from each of the extracted content groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230226452
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that guide a user using a function to use another function among plural functions given by an information processing device, the instructions causing a computer to execute: giving preferential treatment to the user playing a first game depending on a first usage charge in the first game; acquiring usage information indicating a second usage charge in a second game; giving a predetermined license to the user, regardless of the first usage charge, under a condition that the second usage charge is equal to or greater than a certain amount; and giving the preferential treatment, in the first game, to the user who has given the predetermined license.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11691081
    Abstract: An information processing device for executing a game in which a new quest can be executed based on an update that adds the new quest to an existing quest, and a new content becomes usable based on an update that adds the new content to an existing content, includes: a decision means for deciding a used content to be used in one quest, which is the existing quest, from contents associated with a player; an execution means for executing the one quest based on a parameter of the used content; and a granting means for granting a reward to the player in response to satisfying a clearance condition in the executed one quest. The granting means prioritizes the reward when a usable time of the used content is earlier than a specific time stored in association with the one quest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230191258
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition means for acquiring position information about a player in a real world; a determination means for determining whether or not a specific condition related to a movement or a position of the player has been satisfied based on the position information; a selection means for selecting one or more contents from types of the contents based on appearance frequency, regardless of a request from the player, in response to determining that the specific condition has been satisfied; an accumulation means for accumulating the selected contents in accumulation information associated with the player; and an execution means for executing an event corresponding to the accumulated contents at the request of the player. The execution means gives the player a reward related to the accumulated contents in response to the execution of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230100449
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: causing a display to display: an advertisement within a game that is different from another advertisement for the game, and a question related to the advertisement in response to displaying the advertisement; calculating a degree of scrutinization according to an answer to the question received from a player of the game, the degree of scrutinization indicating a degree to which the player has scrutinized the advertisement; providing a content that the player uses in the game based on the display of the advertisement: and prioritizing the player to whom the controller provided the content based on the degree of scrutinization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230084802
    Abstract: An information processing method includes: storing in a storage, information indicating that a user is a paid member for a fixed period; providing an advantage in a game to the user for the fixed period; managing usage frequency of the advantage by the user for the fixed period; and sending the user notification information including the usage frequency as the fixed period elapses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230020609
    Abstract: An information processing device for executing a game in which a new quest can be executed based on an update that adds the new quest to an existing quest, and a new content becomes usable based on an update that adds the new content to an existing content, includes: a decision means for deciding a used content to be used in one quest, which is the existing quest, from contents associated with a player; an execution means for executing the one quest based on a parameter of the used content; and a granting means for granting a reward to the player in response to satisfying a clearance condition in the executed one quest. The granting means prioritizes the reward when a usable time of the used content is earlier than a specific time stored in association with the one quest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20220362669
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • Publication number: 20220362670
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • Patent number: 11471766
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow the points allotted for time restoration to be easily obtained even after automatic restoration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo